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fields, clofe to the river bank, oppofite the town 
of Savannuca. Late in the evening a young 
white man, in great hade and Teeming confu- 
lion, joined our camp, who immediately related, 
that being on his journey from Penfacola, it 
happened that the very night after we had palfed 
the company of emigrants, he met them and 
joined their camp in the evening ; when, juft at 
dark, the Chaffaws furrounded them, plundered 
their camp, and carried all the people off cap- 
tive, except himfelf, he having the good fortune 
to efcape with his horfe, though clofely purfued. 
Next morning very early, though very cold 
and the furface of the earth as hoary as if cover- 
ed with a fall of fnow, the trader Handing on the 
oppofite fhore entirely naked, except a breech- 
clout, and encircled by a company of red men in 
the like habit, hailed us, and prefently, with 
canoes, brought us all over with the merchan- 
dize, and conduced us fafe to the town of 
Mucclaffe, a mile or two diftant. 
The next day was a day of reft and audience : 
the following was devoted to feafting, and the 
evening concluded in celebrating the nuptials of 
the young Muftee with a Creek girl of Muc- 
claffe, daughter of the chief and fifter to our 
trader’s wife. The trader’s houfe and ftores 
formed a compleat fquare, after the mode of the 
habitations or the Mufcogulges, that is, four 
oblong buildings of equal dimenfions, two op- 
pofite to each other, encompaffing an area of 
about a quarter of an acre; on one fide of this 
a fence enclofed a yard of near an acre of ground, 
at one of the farther corners of which a booth or 
pavilion was formed of green boughs, having 
two Laurel trees planted in front (Magnolia 
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